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Hailei Zhang

Xiaohong Mark Yang

LuMing Wang

Sonal Jain

Jai Srinivasan

Rolando Jimenez Salgado

Ehab Sobhy

Zlatko Michailov

John Zhongqi Wang

Jay R Rathi

Alexandru Croicu

Shaofeng Zhu

Hardik V Shah

Robert Ion Gavrila

Thomas Alexander Morrison

Hoe Jin Kim

Chae Seong Lim

Sudheer Maremanda

Michael J Saunders

Abhimanyu Sharma

Nicholas Weinandt

Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for supporting custom functions within an application. An application add-in is received that includes a custom function and a custom function location. The application is available across multiple platforms. The custom function is also available across multiple platforms. The custom function is registered within the application using the custom function location. A request to invoke the custom function is received within the application A custom function implementation is downloaded from the custom function location. The custom function implementation is executed. A return value is received from the custom function implementation. The return value may be displayed within the application.

Cross platform custom functions

An object oriented search mechanism extracts structural metadata and data based on type of document contents and data sources connected to the documents. Relationships between textual and non-textual elements within documents as well as metadata associated with the elements and data sources are utilized to generate a unified object model with the addition of semantic information derived from metadata and taxonomy, which are used to enhance search indexing, ranking of search results, and dynamic adjustment of result rendering user interface with fine tuned relevancy. Additional data from data sources connected to the documents may also be used to unlock hidden data such as data that has been filtered out in an original document.

Object oriented data and metadata based search

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